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Cache folder?

population · 2009-06-22 16:14:13

Hi Myself and my other half have watched a couple of movies online recently, and now the computer is running slow and doing other odd stuff. Ran the anti virus software and it shows no threats, so asked my mate who is a bit computer savvy what is up and he said that the cache folder needs to be emptied??? Again I am not…

22-06-2009 5:14pm

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population

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Hi

Myself and my other half have watched a couple of movies online recently, and now the computer is running slow and doing other odd stuff.

Ran the anti virus software and it shows no threats, so asked my mate who is a bit computer savvy what is up and he said that the cache folder needs to be emptied???

Again I am not sure even if thats what it is called exactly but just wondering where it is on the pc and how one goes about doing this.

Cheers

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#2 22-06-2009 5:44pm

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Follow the instructions here for your browser.

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#3 22-06-2009 5:48pm

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There'll be a lot more junk files lying around which slow your machine, it's not just the cache.

Download ccleaner (crap cleaner) to clear out the, well, crap. Also cleans up registry.

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#4 22-06-2009 7:04pm

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Cheers all

Did both of the above, but unfortunatley though it cleaned up everything the computer is still acting funny.

Essentially there is no problem until you try close a windoe and then it freezes and says "internet explorer not working, searching for solution" then it shuts the page and restarts to the home page

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#5 22-06-2009 7:11pm

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Might be wise to head over to the Virus and Malware Removal forum.

First follow as many of the instructions in this sticky as you can.

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